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At the start of the game, I set my population cap at 35.

About a year later, I reach 38; thinking that was the final migration wave. But lo and behold, next season, another wave comes. And then again the next season. And then AGAIN. What's going on here? Why isn't the pop cap taking effect? I'm looking at the d_init.txt at this very moment. [POPULATION_CAP:35]

I've heard that the liason needs to have their meeting before it works. Well, they've met twice so far. In the first year and then again in this year.

I'm also having trouble withmy military. They don't seem to equip certain items. They'll be walking around, some with helmets, but no breastplate. Some with boots and chainmail, but no greaves or helmets. The stockpiles are practically overflowing with armour, so there's no shortage. I've tried forbidding and unforbidding unused items. I've put the uniform settings to replace clothing instead of over clothing.

What the hell.

I've got a quick question about many of the gigantic animals around my embarks.

In their descriptions, they are regarded as gigantic animals capable of defending themselves. The elephants with their tusks, hippoes that are deadly and aggressive when disturbed.

I tried sending my little militia captain to take on a massive herd of elephants. He was armed with simple clothes and a copper short sword. I was expecting him to get critically injured, but the elephants didn't even attempt to defend themselves, they ran and ran. Even when they got cornered, they just ran past Urist McMilitia, allowing him to happily slash their legs and body.


After that laughably easy task, I got curious and sent him into a herd of nearby hippoes, bathing in the stream. Same story, they ran. Urist McElephantDundee managed to kill a hippo before the rest ran off over the stream to the other side and just sat there, afraid to go anywhere.


What is this. I don't even.



Is there a better tag I can use than [PRONE_TO_RAGE:1]? It has the unpleasant side-effect of making them run after my dwarves that just happen to pass them 15 tiles away.

According to the wiki, when your population goes above 50, the Expedition Leader turns into a Mayor. My current population is 73 dwarves, yet he still an Expedition Leader.

I have yet to receive a baron or any noble at all, in fact. I have a created wealth of 677K, Exported 15K and Imported 75K.


Someone care enough to help?

My miner (who is also my expedition leader and broker) refuses to dig. I've tried searching and got about 5,000 irrelevant results.

Any way to fix this? He has no other labour enabled other than Mining. I've tried disabling-enabling and even stripping him of his broker profession.
   It's like he's practising to become a noble in the future...

As clothes can rot, I've read that Dwarves will not put on new clothes when their originals has worn out, permanently running around naked.

Is there a fix you can mod for this? Perhaps making clothes never wear out?


Edit : Did some more searching, seems a lot of people ask this question.
Disregard this, I suck socks.

Well, disaster struck. Because I am STUPID to not realize how stupid my dwarves were. After channeling out in the wrong order, causing a collapse, one of my two miners died. It was a great tragedy, really, because now I only have one miner until I get my first caravan.

None the less, my surviving miner has been quite sad lately because of this, so I need to bury the dead miner so he won't come back to haunt me. Only problem is that when it collapsed, the shockwave sent the corpse into the nearby river and everyone is refusing to get him.
There's a ramp right next to the body, but no one wishes to path there to grab him.

So now he is forever rotting, bringing every dwarf a bad thought.

I guess I could make a Slab, but then the body would still be there to decay, causing ANOTHER bad thought.


I'm currently playing on a Warm embark, so the stream won't freeze, I believe.


What to do?!

I keep reading about dwarves that become "Ultra-Mighty, Inexhaustible and Super-dwarven strength" after many years of work. Was this the old 40d version?

The only actual attributes I've seen is with my two Legendary Miners, who both have the Near Inexhaustible. (or similar) I'd imagine a miner growing some toughness or strength, but nope. Just improving the blood and oxygen circulation, I guess.

Discuss?

I set one of my Embark dwarves to go hunting.

It's the end of the first year and he's gone all the way up to smokin' Legendary. (He started at Level 3 - Competent) Good grief. My butcher who's been taking care of all his kills hasn't even gone beyond Novice.


Another thing to note is that I embarked on a Sand Desert with scarce trees. I noticed that some Giant Desert Scoprions was on the edge of my map. I checked the Magmawiki and it stated that they are about as lethal as the Giant Cave Spider. That they are merciless predators that do not feel pain, that do not stop.


But...
.. They're running away from my Hunter. He can stand 2-3 tiles away, they'll just run away instead of snapping my dwarf in half.

wat.